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Eni Faleomavaega: “What can you possibly do with an increase of 24 cents a day, and you are working your butt off, and exporting tens of…”

On the recordMarch 1, 2011
What can you possibly do with an increase of 24 cents a day, and you are working your butt off, and exporting tens of billions of dollars of canned tuna from this little territory of American Samoa?
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Eni Faleomavaega
American Samoa

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Faleomavaega questions the impact of a minimal wage increase on workers in American Samoa.

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